environment

CITY OF CALAPAN — While the number of migratory birds seen at the Naujan Lake National Park (NLNP) in Oriental Mindoro province was down this year, conservationists have noted the presence of two new species of ducks in the lake. Results of the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) held on Jan. […]

President Rodrigo Duterte said he wants to “close” popular beach island Boracay if its environmental problems are not resolved in 6 months. Same can happen to other destinations with environmental issues as well. “I will close Boracay. Boracay is a cesspool,” the President said on Friday night, February 9, during […]

The island of Mindoro has an area of almost 10,000 square kilometers. Mountain ranges from northwest to southeast cover around forty percent. From these ranges numerous rivers run into the riparian areas. In the rainy season they become big rivers and overflow to the lower areas. The mountain ridges also […]

Finally, finally, at long last, the long-awaited, much-anticipated water rehabilitation project is underway. This following the approval of the Sangguniang Bayan of Mayor Rockey Ilagan’s water system rehabilitation and improvement projects estimated to cost more than 70 million pesos in total. The Mayor promised that the water crisis now running […]

After Mayor Ilagan took office in july 2016 at the Municipal, he implemented certain rules and made sure that such rules where enforced. Noisy muffler, karaoke, loud music – Galerans thought was part of the history. Guess what – we where wrong. Discipline is gone – motorbike riders with noisy […]

The hard structures started forming before the long reign of the dinosaurs, and they did so for a specific purpose. Travel back in time to 260 million years ago, just before the dawn of the dinosaur era. Journey to what is now South Africa, and make your way to a […]

Typhoon or no typhoon, what we had to spot in Brgy. Aninuan is barely news, nor is it acceptable. Yesterday, late afternoon we have been seen a, what i believe is a very dangerous situation. A coconut tree, damaged by the latest typhoon was found to lean over the […]

Tuguegarao City, Cagayan Province, Philippines – Japan and South Korea joint research together with the support of Department of Science and Technology (DOTC) has discovered and found a huge deposits of minerals and natural gas east of the Philippines in Cagayan Valley region. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) […]

Earthquakes, landslides and typhoons bother the country for ages. You always need to watch out for danger. Having said that, one thing i dont understand: why do we always wait until something happens before we get active? Yesterday, i was on the way back from aninuan i could not […]

Cmon waterworks.. big new pipes are broken, water is running all over the place.. how come that it take always that long to get the leaks fixed? This video has been taken today, just outside the Fortnightly Journal office.

Yesterday, the Fortnightly Journal got some pictures from concerned citizens of big lalaguna in Barangay Sabang. The Picture are showing, what experts call “Dangerous Clear-cutting in eroded Slopes near Building Structures”, logically, the folks around this area are unhappy to see that something like that still exists in our Town. […]

The wind farm project atop the mountain is the hottest issue in the island of Mindoro. Probably not only because of the P6 billion price tag but its wide-ranging impact to the community. It started way back in 2006 when Nicanor Villasenor, the former president of Philippine Hybrid Energy Systems, […]

Coral reefs are unlike anything else on the planet. In addition to providing valuable habitat for fish and other animals, they are incredibly beautiful, with seemingly infinite structures and growth forms. Some of their common names describe this diversity: staghorn, elkhorn, bird’s nest, brain, finger, mushroom, pillar, lettuce, lobed, and […]

Sabang Bay is a world-class dive site, with great visibility and masses of underwater life, making it as among the favorite destinations for tourists and diving enthusiasts in the Philippines. Working out plans to protect our marine areas is critical to effectively address development issues on safeguarding the areas’ ecosystem […]

The Puerto Galera Fortnightly Journal just received some very good news from the Office of the Municipal Mayor Rockey D, Ilagan. The national Department of Works and Highways granted the Municipality of Puerto Galera a 100 Million Peso budget for the construction of a Sewage Treatment Plant. Finally, one of […]

The municipality’s environment program has been largely superficial and limited. When people speak of nature in Puerto Galera, they often relate it to the marine environment. However, Puerto Galera’s rainforest is equally stunning and equally endangered. If the marine ecosystem has problems with illegal fishing or pollution, the rainforest biggest […]

IT’S hard to understand why our town and provincial legislators remain deaf to the growing clamor by majority of their constituents to enact ordinances against loud motorcycles that produce nerve-wracking noise even in the late hours of the night not just along major roads but also along quiet neighborhood streets. […]

It was a perfect day to snorkel. But we did not go there just to see the fishes at coral garden. We went to witness the installation of moorings to be used by the bancas which bring in tourist to snorkel in coral garden. Danny Enriquez, former chair of the […]